The general didn't speak when he got closer, but just stared at Xiao Zhengtai with a leather scroll in his hand, and said in his mouth: "It's eight points similar to the portrait, it should be right, the boy of the Haocheng family, how did you escape from the territory of the orcs?"

After asking, he looked at his clothes again, looked at this child who should be dressed in fine clothes, now dressed in sackcloth, and said to himself: "Yes, you should have suffered a lot, first follow me back to Huhu Guan and say, your uncle is still waiting for news there?"

For the three people around Xiao Zhengtai, the young general only glanced at it a few times, and only paused on the elf.

Maybe it was because a few people had just climbed the mountain behind, and their clothes and hairstyles were too messy, which made the young general think that a few people had escaped back and suffered a lot.

Xiao Zhengtai couldn't say a word, watching the young general turn around and go down the mountain by himself, and several people had to follow.

None of the soldiers who went down the mountain around them were ready to come up to help, but the discipline seemed to be very strict, only occasionally peeking at Yang Xin'an, who was carrying an off-road vehicle, and after seeing his embarrassed appearance, the corners of his mouth were obviously curled.

More than a dozen officers under the mountain also looked at Yang Xin'an carrying a strange carriage, and the corners of their mouths twitched.

At this time, the young general also noticed that something was wrong, turned his head to look at Yang Xin'an's appearance, the corners of his mouth twitched, and ordered a soldier to hurry up and lead a wildebeest.

The wildebeest horses in the army are all horses over two and a half meters, and these wild beasts that have been successfully shepherded by humans seem to have shrunk in size, and it is difficult to catch up with the wild ones, and those under two and a half meters are sold to commercial or civilian use.

It took them most of the day to see the Tiger Pass, and by this time the sun was about to set.

When they first set off, these generals and sergeants were also very curious about such a strange car, and it was not unheard of a four-wheeled carriage, but it was the first time they had seen such a strange car.

These soldiers stood on the side and watched the excitement, and the young general also got into the car and looked at it, only thinking that the car was strange and luxurious, and finally complained that the inner chamber of the carriage was too small, and said that in the future, when he returned to the family, he would find a craftsman to make it bigger according to this appearance.

Compared with this group of men who are all about 1.9 meters tall or 2 meters tall, this compartment is indeed a bit small.

It is not easy for a car to be disguised as a horse-drawn carriage, and it is very simple to let a horn horse go, but it is difficult to drive.

In order not to be too troublesome, Yang Xin'an could only be a groom, and in order to control the wildebeest, he also spent a few minutes to make a simple horse mouth cage, fortunately, these military horses are well-trained and not difficult to control, after hitting the tree a few times, he was finally able to move forward smoothly, because the off-road vehicle was too heavy, and the wildebeest pulling the cart became two after walking for a while.

Along the way, Xiao Zhengtai was asking the young general about some things after he was arrested, and several people listened and understood the whole story of their encounter with this brigade of soldiers.

Because Xiao Zhengtai Bai Chen was captured by the slave team, his family launched all the networks to search, and his uncle just left a letter in this border city and chased it, which made the entire high-level Terran who knew about it angry, and also began a purge of the slave catcher team in the territory of the whole human race.

In the past month and a half, the entire territory of the human race has been screened in a carpet manner, and this border smuggling line is a key place to strike, there are three brigades patrolling at different times every day, and there will be falcons flying up in the sky to investigate, and the four of them were also seen when they were climbing the mountain.

At the gate of the Tiger Gate, there was already a group of people waiting there, among which there was a middle-aged man in brocade clothes and jade belts pacing back and forth in front of the group, sometimes looking ahead as if waiting for someone to appear.

When Xiao Zhengtai saw the middle-aged man, he hurriedly opened the car door and ran over, threw himself into the man's arms and shouted, "Second uncle." And he began to cry.

Seeing that the two would not be separated for a while, the young general greeted Yang Xin'an and the others, preparing to go back to Shangguan to make an errand.

Yang Xin'an and the three of them hurriedly bowed down and saluted each other, these etiquettes were all taught by Xiao Zhengtai in the mountains, at that time, the brother and sister just asked if there was anything to pay attention to in the human race, and Xiao Zhengtai couldn't think of anything to pay attention to, so they taught some common meeting etiquette and separation etiquette in the family.

Although the young general left, he also sent a sergeant to lead the three to the place where they lived, and perhaps after leaving the team, the man in his thirties began to become active.

Seeing that the three of them seemed to be very curious about this border city, they began to introduce: "My name is Lou Erhu, you can call me Brother Tiger, this border city is very large, there are twenty miles of the city wall, the city wall is sixty meters high, twenty meters thick, all built of boulders, we came in from the north gate, to the west are all military camps, there are 500,000 permanent soldiers, and more than 1 million temporary service soldiers." ”

Hearing this, Yang Xin'an was very curious, so he asked, "What is a temporary service soldier." ”

"Temporary service soldiers are because of the large number of people in the family, and they can't pay taxes, these peasant households will be required to send one or two people to the border pass, military service or other town construction paving service, the person who has served in the border pass for ten years does not have to pay taxes for life, if there is merit there will be a reward, many people are here for the reward, the service is not so lucky, although it is much safer, but every year one person has to go out to repair the city and build the road. ”

Lou Erhu can be said to know everything.

Yang Xin'an understands the tax credit for labor very well, but he doesn't know how much tax each population needs to pay.

However, Lou Erhu said that unless it is a permanent resident around the city, it is necessary to pay taxes to the city where it is located, and the taxes of the wandering mercenaries and adventurers will be collected when they consume in the city, and then deducted from the income tax of the merchants, and children who have reached the age of ten will start to pay, but only half of the adults need to be paid.

Yang Xin'an and the three of them looked west, and there were rows of three-story buildings, with many trees planted in between, and a small river twisting and turning in between.

"This river is drawn from the tributaries of the heavenly river, the heavenly river is the hundred-zhang wide river, I heard that no one knows where its source is, some people chase to the upper reaches of the big river and finally see a snow-capped mountain that cannot see the top of the mountain, this big river will be divided into dozens of small rivers under the border mountain range, among which there is a tributary more than thirty zhang wide to the territory of the human race through the East China Sea, and there is a big river more than forty zhang wide to separate the elves and the half-orcs, and the rest is many small rivers less than ten meters wide. ”

Lou Erhu also felt that it was a bit far, Han Han laughed twice, and led the three of them to continue walking.

Even if there was a wildebeest to walk, this walk took more than an hour, and on the way I saw a lot of idle sergeants wandering and chatting, or riding a carriage to the east of the city, seeing that these sergeants were dressed in sackcloth and hemp pants, green clothes and gray shirts with patches, and they knew that they were not wealthy people.

Almost to the east of the city, Lou Erhu spoke again: "Beyond this inner city wall is the commercial area, where merchants are allowed to operate lodging restaurants and sell some small things, there are also blacksmith shops and medicine shops, and of course, taverns and brothels. ”

Speaking of this, he lowered his voice and said to Yang Xin'an: "Actually, the most popular ones here are taverns and brothels, let me tell you..."

Yang Xin'an was really embarrassed to listen to it, knowing that even if he lowered his voice, his voice was actually quite loud, so he replied in a low voice: "Brother Tiger, I'm only fifteen years old!"

"Fifteen years old is not too young...", the straightforward man reacted as soon as he said this, and smiled wryly.